Costumer



April 23, 1957 J, KURTZ 2,789,703

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ATTORNEYS.

J. KURTZ lCOSTUMER April Z3, 1957 Filed dan. 21, 1955 3 Sheets-Sheet 3dof/v kan rz INVENTOR ATTORNEYS COSTUMER lohn Kurtz, Bethlehem, Pa.

Application January 21, 1955, Serial No. 483,365

2 Claims. (Cl. 211171) This invention relates to an improved costumerand more particularly to an improved coat and garment rack of the typecommonly known as a clothes tree.

It is an object of this invention to provide a costumer of the kind tobe more particularly described hereinafter which is rotatable on itsbase having garment supporting States PatentiO hangers movable outwardlyor inwardly from a center supporting post therefor.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved clothes treeof this kind having half-garment engaging arms operative to an outwardlyextending garment engaging position transversely of and supported by acenter supporting post, the garment engaging halfarms being operative inunison with a similar and opposed half-arm to provide therewith a fullgarmenty hanger pivotally supported on the center post.

It is yet a further object of this invention to provide an improvedclothes tree of this kind having a conventional type of centersupporting post lwith foldable gar ment supporting hangers thereon, saidhangers being foldable from a position parallel to the post to anoutwardly extending position laterally of the post by the iingers of aperson using the clothes tree.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will behereinafter described and the novel features thereof defined in theappended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevation, partly in section, of an improved costumerconstructed according to an embodiment of my invention. p

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevation, partly broken away, of the upperend of my costumer.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section, ofthe intermediate portion of the costumer with the arms thereof in theirextended position.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section of my improved costumer taken on the line5 5 of Figs. 4 and 6.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary detailed longitudinal section of anarm of my costumer.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged side elevation, partly broken away and partly insection, of the intermediate portion of my costumer with the armsthereof in their folded position.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation, partly broken away, perpendicular to theview of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a clothes hanger and supporttherefor removed from my costumer.

Heretofore the use of a clothes rack has been substantially commonplacein a lot of homes or other meeting places where a number of persons areadapted to hang their garments on the clothes tree. With this inventionthe garments of the persons using the costumer or clothes rack areadapted to be hung from a garment hanger and all of the garment hangersare adapted to be spring pressed to a position parallel to and outwardlyextending from a supporting post. By the use of a clothes rack,

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constructed according to an embodiment of this invention, the supportingpost and the garment hangers attached thereto are formed for dispositionin a part of a building in such a manner that the complete clothes rackwill not require as much attention without clothes as an ordinaryconventional umbrella supporting device, also found in the sameestablishment which may use this clothes rack.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings the numeral 10designates generally a costumer or clothes rack constructed according toan embodiment of my invention. The clothes rack 10 is provided with anupstanding tubular supporting post 11 which extends upwardly from a base12. The base 12 is particularly adapted to be circular in configurationhaving depending legs 14 on the outer periphery thereof and a tubularboss 15 at the center so that the supporting post 11 may be engagedwithin the upper open end of the boss l5 to support the supporting post11 in its selected location.

Provided within the supporting post 11 adjacent to and spaced above'thebase 12 is a solid ring 16 which is engaged by one end of an elongatedrod 17 extending upwardly from the base. In this manner the rod 17 andring 16 will substantially stabilize the elongated upstanding tubularsupporting post 11 on the center of the base 12.

A plurality of garment hanger supporting arms 18 are adapted to belocated in a row above the base 12 along the length of the supportingpost 11.

Each of the hanger supporting arms 18 is hingedly connected to thesupporting post 11 by a pair of horizontally spaced apart hinge arms 19within which a hinge pin 20 is adapted to be engaged for the loosedisposition of the hinge arms 19 thereon.

A spur gear 21 is secured onto the hinge pin 20, intermediate the lengththereof so that the spur gear 21, the hinge pin 20 and the garmenthanger supporting arms 18 will be moved at the same time and at the samespeed.

There is provided Within the tubular supporting post 11 an elongatedrack 22 which is adapted to be positioned according to the location ofany one of the garment hanger supporting arms 18 so that all of thegarment hanger supporting arms and hangers supported therefrom will belocated in the same relative position to each other and to thesupporting post upon the movement of one of the supporting arms 18caused by the movement of the controlling supporting arm by the ngers ofa person using the costumer or clothes rack 10, constructed according toan embodiment of my invention.

A garment hanger 24 is hingedly supported on each of the garment hangersupporting arms 18 remote from the supporting post 11 and outwardlytherefrom for engagement with a garment to be suspended from the clothesrack. Each of the garment hangers 24 is formed of a pair of hingedlyconnected garment hanger arms 25 which may extend outwardly from thesupporting post 11. An arm 26 is hingedly connected by a pin 27 to eachof the garment hanger arms 25 and to the arms 29 as can be noted fromFigs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. The hinge pin 27 provides a vertical axisfor the arm 26 when the said arm is to be extended outwardly from thesupporting post 11.

An elongated bar 28 is extended through part of the length of the hangersupporting arm 18 and engages arm 29 at one end and the center tubularsupporting post 11 at the other end thereof thereby actuating themovement of the hinge arm 19 and the garment hanger when at least one ofthe garment hanger supporting arms 18 is moved to its selected position.

There are provided a pair of arms 29 hingedly connected to the outer endof the bar 28 and the other end Patented Apt. 23, 1957- ispivotallyconnectedto one of the arms 26, a part of the arms 25 as most clearlyindicated in Figs; 5 and 6 of the drawings.

Each of the garment hanger arms 25 is provided with a leaved boss 3i) atone end thereofthrough which' ex `tendsa hinge pin 31 for holding bothof the hanger arms 25 together on the outer endv of the garment hangersupporting'arm 18` when the garment hangers are prop` erly located intheir desired position forV hanging a' garment therefrom.

An elongated resilient coil spring 32 is disposed within the tubularsupporting arm 11 for constantly urging the rack 22 downwardly towardthe base 12 and the hanger invention is not confined theretotas changesand alterations may be made without departing from the spirit andsupporting arms18 outwardly'from the supporting post `11. TheA upper endofthe coil spring 32, being secured to the lower end of the rack 22 hasthe lower end'of the' spring secured at a` lower'position within theksupporting tube by an anchor'pin 34 which is engaged transversely of thesupporting post adjacent the extreme lowerV end thereof.

An umbrella supporting plate 315V is disposed adjacent tothe lower endof the supportingpost 11 andupwardly from the base 12 for properlysupporting' umbrellas therein when and as the necessity of the use ofumbrellas is required. The umbrella supporting plate 35 is provided withopenings 36 therethrough through which the umbrellas may be positionedat the same time that garments are hung from the garment hangers 24 onthe costumer 10.

To add to the utility of the improved costumer` 10 described above, aclothes supporting ring 36 rotatable on the tip of the post 11 hasoutwardly extending clothes supporting hooks 37 extending outwardly fromthe periphery thereof. This added ring 36 and clothes supporting hooks37 are rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the post 11 therebyfacilitating the engagement of and removal of clothes from the costumerirrespectiveV scope thereof as dened in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. kA collapsible clothes rack comprising a base, a tubularpost securedto`and`rising from saidbase, a series of opposed tubular hangersupporting, arms pivotally secured at the inner ends thereof to saidpost, a gear carried by the inner end of each arm, a vertically disposedgear rack in said post meshing with said gears, an arm collapsing springfixed at one end relative to said post and secured at'the other VendVthereof to the lower end of said rack, said spring constantly urgingsaid rack downwardlyto thereby raise said arms to vertical collapsedposition, a pair of hanger members pivotally carried by the outer end ofeach arm and gravitatingly hanger members, anda bar slidable in each armpivotally of the use of the foldable garment engaging supports securedat the outer end thereof to the inner convergent ends ofsaid'latternamed pair of members and engageable at the inner end thereof with saidpost to effect extension of said larger members.

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